PhoSim Tutorial 6: How to Create a Custom Catalog

Custom catalogs can be created by adding lists of objects that you want PhoSim to simulate. For example, the following catalog simulates 3 different stars (point sources) with flat SEDs and different brightnesses.

rightascension 0

declination 0

object 0 0.01 0.0 18 ../sky/sed_flat.txt 0 0 0 0 0 0 star none none

object 0 0.00 0.01 16 ../sky/sed_flat.txt 0 0 0 0 0 0 star none none

object 0 0.01 0.01 14 ../sky/sed_flat.txt 0 0 0 0 0 0 star none none


This results in an image as: